Lexington Books
Pages: 416
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-0438-5 • Paperback • November 2002 • $56.99 • (£44.00)
David Aikman is a former senior correspondent for Time magazine and covered international affairs for more than twenty years. He reported several Man-of-the-Year cover stories, including those on Deng Ziaoping, Corazon Aquino, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Billy Graham—Salvation
Chapter 3 Nelson Mandela—Forgiveness
Chapter 4 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn—Truth
Chapter 5 Mother Teresa—Compassion
Chapter 6 Pope John Paul II—Human Dignity
Chapter 7 Elie Wiesel—Remembrance
Aikman deserves credit for writing biographies that not only are reliable and highly readable but also-because of the figures he chose to write about-morally elevating….Ultimately, Great Souls is about commendable qualities that people of any religious commitment, or even none at all, can and should recognize.
— The Weekly Standard
Readers with sharp dislikes for any of these six might be surprised to find themselves wavering after the author makes his case. They might even test the breadth of their human sympathy by trying to embrace both Mandela and Solzhenitsyn, both Graham and Wiesel.
— Books and Culture
Great Souls is a good read, eloquently showing how ordinary individuals with extraordinary discipline and will have risen above numerous kinds of adversity to influence the world for good.
— San Antonio Express
Great Souls…serves as an excellent introduction to six remarkable lives. Best of all, it answers the questions, "Where have all the heroes gone?" They are right in front of us.
— Lexington Herald-Leader